Dear Colleagues, you're kindly invited to submit an abstract for a paper or a poster for the ESPAnet2022 VIENNA CONFERENCE, 14-16 September 2022 ( https://www.espanet-vienna2022.org) within the stream no. 21 Implementing Minimum Income Schemes in Europe: Perspectives and Challenges'. Deadline for abstracts submission: 4 April Notification of acceptance: 13 May Abstract Submission (max 500 words): https://espanet-vienna2022.exordo.com. Stream description: The 2008 economic crisis and recently the COVID-19 pandemic have increased unemployment and generated ‘new poor’ in the world. Against this background, advocates of reforms - among which the European Union - called for the introduction of new schemes of social security and solidarity to support categories most at risk of poverty and social exclusion. Consequently, Minimum Income Schemes (MIS) have been implemented in almost all European Countries, at the national and at the local level. Interestingly, MIS have been increasingly transforming in complex social measures comprising not only cash transfers but also special programs of job activation and/or social inclusion of beneficiaries. These programs are delivered by hybrid networks of public and non-public actors (e.g., employment offices, health and social services, training agencies) that require coordinated and integrated strategies of action. Although some research has been carried out on MIS, there is still little scientific understanding of their policy design and implementation, especially in comparative perspective. Taking stock of almost a decade of MIS' adoption in Europe, the stream is aimed at critically examining which aspects impact policy processes and determine MIS’ positive or negative performances, outputs, and outcomes. The stream welcomes papers that analyze empirical cases of MIS adoption at a national, regional, or local level, but also theoretical reflections on the impact of these measures on their politico-administrative sustainability. Contributions can adopt a quantitative or a qualitative approach and may include, but are not limited to, the analysis at the national/regional/local level of the following topics: Impact of governance systems and/or administrative capacities in designing MIS. Coordination and integration processes among actors on the implementation of MIS. Impact of actors’ roles and relationships with beneficiaries, including street level bureaucrats’ discretion, on the implementation of MIS. Collaborative processes between beneficiaries and case managers in activation patterns. The role and impact of digitalization, big data, AI, and information systems in the delivery of MIS. Abstracts should include research question(s), an outline of the research design and main contributions of the proposed paper to the stream. Chairs: Nesti, Giorgia (Department of Political Science, Law, and International Studies, University of Padova) giorgia.nesti@unipd.it Graziano, Paolo (Department of Political Science, Law, and International Studies, University of Padova) Kind Regards Giorgia Nesti and Paolo Graziano Giorgia Nesti, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Public Policy Department of Political Science, Law, and International Studies University of Padova email giorgia.nesti@unipd.it Twitter @GiorgiaNesti www.polbis.eu